Night and day difference

[Chris3D]

Joebob, I don't recall the numbers exactly, but the display was using the most battery (which isn't unexpected), but the cell standby was also above 50%, and I seem to recall seeing it at 65% at one point. Now it's usually below 20%. I just checked my phone now, and time without signal is reported at 50%, but I haven't been missing or unable to make calls, so I'm not sure exactly what that means.

Fatkid, You might want to give ADW Launcher a try. I didn't care for Launcher Pro either, but ADW seems simple, clean and efficient. But yea, if you're keeping TouchWiz, just don't remove the TW components (or at least the ones you use, you can still remove TW widgets and wallpapers if you're not using them).

I'm attaching the blockbuster apk. There's also a system dump floating around here somewhere that includes all the apps if you happen to delete others.

Edit: I had to rename the blockbuster apk to a zip file to get it to attach, so just download it and replace the .zip with .apk and you should be good to go.

 

[fatkidkustomz]

Thanks again man. I'll look into ADW. As of right now since I moved the basics to the SD card, the stock battery meter hasn't moved. I'm hoping that's a good sign.

 

[joebob2000]

Joebob, I don't recall the numbers exactly, but the display was using the most battery (which isn't unexpected), but the cell standby was also above 50%, and I seem to recall seeing it at 65% at one point. Now it's usually below 20%. I just checked my phone now, and time without signal is reported at 50%, but I haven't been missing or unable to make calls, so I'm not sure exactly what that means.

Yeah i take the battery numbers with a huge grain of salt. I am sure the screen usage number is pretty accurate but the time-on-call will show up as like 80% of the usage if i make a five minute phone call, and the "time with no signal" number just cannot be accurate since it suggests i spend hours a day with no usable signal which is demonstrably false (unless it is *only* doing it when im not looking). I was getting bummed about the poor performance out of the phone but the debloating has seemed to help a ton so far.

For all the efficiencies of linux and the cpu, the fact that every ******* app has to keep itself running is very frustrating. I installed the photoshop express app to play around with it (it doesnt seem to do resizing so i am probably going to uninstall it) but the damn thing runs on startup too! Come on.

 

[fatkidkustomz]

Ok... another question. So I went through your list Chris, and I moved pretty much everything but the widgets and anything TW related.

So I go and check "Running Services" and there's a few things running, that I wouldn't think should be running, seeing as how I moved the .apk files to the SD card into a "Junk" folder.

Here's what I've got that I shouldn't think should be running:

VVMService
3G Mobile Hotspot

Should I re-boot, and if so, how do I do that if it's another way besides just power off then power on?


I have no intentions of using either of those services, so I don't want them running in the background. I know this stuff has to effect battery life, I just can't believe Verizon would release a phone that does this. If I don't tell it to run, I don't want it to run. The deeper I dig, the more I can see why the battery life really does suck on this phone.

But, on a brighter note, since I rooted and de-bloated most of this, I've absolutely HAMMERED on this phone today. And while it's telling me to plug it in right now, I can't blame it. I've texted, talked, and surfed as much as possible today.

 

[Chris3D]

I'm not sure what VVMService is, but I have it running too. I'll have to investigate. But definitely reboot and Mobile Hotspot should not be there afterwards. Power off/on will do it, I don't think there's a specific reboot button.

 

[NickA]

VVMService is Visual Voice Mail. I saw another thread where someone removed it and didn't have any issues.

 

[packerbacker]

Launcher Pro could be my battery culprit? That seems understandable. I do love the LP+ Widgets though, which is why I hesitate to try out ADW.

 

[fatkidkustomz]

I'm not sure what VVMService is, but I have it running too. I'll have to investigate. But definitely reboot and Mobile Hotspot should not be there afterwards. Power off/on will do it, I don't think there's a specific reboot button.

VVMService is Visual Voice Mail. I saw another thread where someone removed it and didn't have any issues.

I stand corrected. I missed those two when I moved the files, that's why they were still there.

Chris, the files for VVM (visual voice mail) are just what you'd think. VisualVoiceMail.apk and .odex... just moved both.

Anyone know what DRM is?

In my running services list I've got:

DRM Protected Content Storage
Process: com.sec.android.providers.drm
OmaDrmConfigService

Also, another one I don't know about is:

PVWmdrmService
Process: com.pv.wmdrmservice
PVWmrdrmService

Both of those stay running, and come back after a reboot if stopped manually.

 

[Chris3D]

Ahhh, Visual Voice Mail... makes sense. I just moved mine and will see if I run into any issues.

I would assume anything with DRM has to do with digital rights management on media files, so I'd leave that stuff alone.

 

[fatkidkustomz]

Well guys, I've got great news. Hopefully this helps a few people along the way, here's my findings.

I unplugged my phone at 8:04pm Friday night. Went out with some friends, showed it off a little, surfed the web waiting on dinner, and had a few phone calls and a decent amount of texts.

Woke up at 9:30am Saturday at a friend's house, so I had no charger. Amazingly, I didn't need one. Still had almost a full charge. Used it all day Saturday, texts calls and web, and when I plugged it in around 8:45pm Saturday night, it was at 47% charge.

So theoretically, it would have lasted almost 48 hours at the rate I was going. Now honestly, I was a little nicer to it because I was out with most of my friends, so I didn't text/call as much as I'm capable of since they were there with me. But, I wouldn't hesitate to say that I could have gotten 36 hours, even with a lot heavier usage.

With this battery issue pretty much straightened out, I must say, this phone is amazing.

 

[packerbacker]

^ So what did you do to get the better battery life? You didn't say. Just by removing Visual Voicemail?

 

[fatkidkustomz]

Sorry... I should have summed that up in the post as well. It's scattered throughout the whole adventure of posts though.

Either way, I basically removed everything on the list that Chris posted, except I left all the Touch Wiz stuff, because I'm not a fan of LauncherPro. I left a few of the widgets I thought I might use, but as far as all the apps, they're all moved to the SD card in a "junk" folder. Almost all of them were running some kind of background processes.

 

[packerbacker]

I thought I read somewhere if you move some apps to your SD card, that can actually cause lag. Is that not true?

 

[fatkidkustomz]

I honestly haven't experienced much lag anyway. I've heard and read about all these lag fixes, but honestly, I came from a BB Storm 1. So even a 2 second hang-up is lightning fast for me, lol.

Also, another update on battery so far... it's been unplugged since 3am (I know... I keep weird hours on the weekends). Well, today's my birthday, and I know a lot of people (like my contact list is over 200), so as you can imagine, this thing has taken a hammering today. Just checked, still at 65%. So what's that... 10.5 hours so far with constant texting.

 

[packerbacker]

I honestly haven't experienced much lag anyway. I've heard and read about all these lag fixes, but honestly, I came from a BB Storm 1. So even a 2 second hang-up is lightning fast for me, lol.

Also, another update on battery so far... it's been unplugged since 3am (I know... I keep weird hours on the weekends). Well, today's my birthday, and I know a lot of people (like my contact list is over 200), so as you can imagine, this thing has taken a hammering today. Just checked, still at 65%. So what's that... 10.5 hours so far with constant texting.

I haven't done constant texting (happy bday btw!) but I have had Tweetdeck on quite a bit and being unplugged 6.5 hours, it's still at 66%. Nowhere near as good as yours but for me, that's an insanely good battery day, lol